The Physician Executive: “Many of US doctors feel that primary care is the choice of students with no other choice. Even Canada’s social conscience cannot mask the prejudice entirely. I was once recruited by a cardiovascular surgeon who said I was too good to settle for family practice. It is a nearly universal phenomenon in a world where progressively greater expertise gets more respect than being a generalist.”
Generalists get no respect
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